Waterbury Police: Naked Man Found With Dog

A Waterbury woman told police she found a naked man with her pit bull

WATERBURY - Police said a 22-year old local man is being held for evaluation in a psychiatric unit after a resident told police that she found the naked man in her yard making sexual contact with her pit bull.

The man, who has not been identified or charged, then led police on a chase through the Bunker Hill neighborhood, according to Deputy Chief Christopher Corbett.

Corbett said that police received a call about 10 a.m. Tuesday morning from the resident.

Corbett said the man was acting "very erratically" and screaming about Ebola and the end of the world. He said the man told the resident that he was the anti-Christ and that he had given her dog Ebola.

The resident then retrieved a gun and used it to detain the man until police arrived, according to Corbett. He said at some point the woman fired a warning shot into the ground to stop the man from advancing towards her.

Corbett said that when police arrived the man fled on foot and led officers on a foot pursuit for a mile or two before he was subdued and apprehended on Stoddard Road. The man was then transported to St. Mary's Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.

"Most of his paths were through backyards and wooded areas," he said.

Corbett said police received multiple complaints as the man ran naked through residential areas. He said police continue to investigate the incident and that a warrant to charge the man with fourth-degree sexual assault, cruelty to animals and second degree breach of peace is waiting to be served on him once he is released from the hospital.